Training Log Archive: JanetT

Arrived home this evening to find the most snow of the season in our driveway...about 5-6".

Flying Pig day 2 brown, 3.3 km 170m nominal stats. Either they counted wrong or I avoided a lot of potential climb (or the watch/AP algorithm is wrong).

I thought it might be a good idea to take my hiking pole with me today, and I used it a bit on the way to the start and then collapsed it while waiting for my start time. So on the way to 1 I was fiddling with it to get it lengthened again, and couldn't get the stops to lock. I wasn't paying close attention to what I was doing but didn't drift too far; ended up near the depressions south of the control, not very far away, just slow getting there. By the time I left headed for 2, two of my competitors who had started later caught up to me...frustrating! But what I deserved. I managed to jog some on trails or roads, and dropped my ineffective pole near the finish area on the way from 4 to 5.

Bit of a long way around to 4 once I left the road to supposedly avoid some climb; and slightly off to the left approaching 5 but I think I recovered faster than some of those just behind me. 6 could have been tricky but I had no trouble. The rest was just slogging up hills just to go back down again, or at least that's how it seemed. An uphill finish at the end...

18th on the course and 3rd in F60. Not sure how they calculated places for the weekend (I was 4th Saturday and 3rd today), because we didn't hang around for awards and full results aren't posted yet. Nice job by OCIN, as always. My *only* quibble was that it looks to me as though the 1:10000 maps have 1:15000-size symbols; I could see them with my magnifier but just barely sometimes.

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Knee seems to be doing slightly better with the NSAID regimen but I still need a pillow at night between my knees. At least it doesn't hurt as much as when I competed in Georgia in January. So I'll keep at it (both the NSAIDs and the orienteering) and try to add in some different exercise routines if I can.

Flying_Pig_2016_Sunday_Classic_7 Brown A - Splits

FP XX day 1 at Miami Whitewater Forest, in the woods west of the reservoir that's west of the golf course. SL was 3.1 km; 160 m climb listed (5%?!), and 14 controls.

Interesting course with a middle feel. My lack of fitness showed especially during any uphills where I was battling gravity. Picked my way carefully on downhills. Still managed to tumble once but it was a rolling fall, not a trauma-to-knees one. Knee achy the entire time.

Woods were largely open, and where they weren't (honeysuckle was starting to leaf out, sometimes mixed with briars) there were routes around to consider.

Small mistakes going into two of the three controls I'm calling non-spikes; not visualizing right on #3; possible wrong angle off trail to 7 but I had a good vantage point looking at the ditch/reentrant situation and picked the right one; went low 13-14 and climbed one reentrant too early but corrected (and led a half dozen folks just behind me in). Final hill was a slog by that point. Some good times posted by F55s and F60s. Natalia was second fastest on the course, about 5 minutes behind Erin Schirm (who ran the Brown open in about 32:45). Shelley and Ursula were both faster than me today too.

Course map

Walk from finish to download (and clothing return).

Temp today was upper 40s to low 50s but the wind makes it feel significantly colder. Fortunately it wasn't too windy in the woods I was in, but I heard about someone who watched a tree fall.

Yesterday was a bit nicer, near 60, and sunny; but still windy. Tomorrow's not supposed to be as windy.

C • Tree 4

Flying_Pig_2016_Saturday_Classic_7 Brown A - Splits

Event: OCIN Flying Pig XX
 

Sprint at Miami Unv--Hamilton campus and vicinity. Only the last four controls on Brown were actually what I would call campus sprinting;the rest was wooded areas or open fields. Interesting course design.

2.1 km with negligible climb. I think Steve Tarry was fastest on the course, in 18:10. Natalia was under 20 minutes, and Sharon a bit over 21, so I was very pleased where I stood especially since I wasn't sure if I'd be able to run at all. My knee was achy but not painfully sore. Got advice to take antiinflammatories for two weeks to see if that makes the flare up recede, and news of possible new drug development for this type of joint pain. ;-) I will try the regimen to see if it helps, as long as my stomach tolerates it.

10/33 on this Brown course; 2/6 in F60. Ursula Goeres from Canada is a bit faster runner but she had a bad control in the middle of the course.

Interesting to see how the F20 class shakes out among three very competitive young women in AdventureGirl!, Julia D (BAOC), and Izzy. There are only three F21s at this meet.

Flying_Pig_2016_Friday_Sprint_7 Brown - Splits

Rings used (yes, we did lunges as usual with rings). I skipped it for anything where it was placed inside above my knees as I've found pressure there hurts the bad knee. Easy enough to do the exercises without; I just didn't get the additional adductor work. Did frog with bottoms of feet touching and not ankles crossed, and think it was tougher that way.

Knee got increasing sore when finishing the second mile. Sigh.

15:56/16:05/3:50